The dragon's harem

"The great one? What does it mean?" Arad looked at the receptionists, "Do any of you know?"

"The great one is a beast Nina's clan worshipped. From what she told us, the great one is the tarrasque." She turned around, "A moment please,"

After a minute, she returned with a thick old book. "Take a look,"

On the first page, Arad saw the drawing of a massive lizard standing on its hind legs like a chicken. It had massive front claws, large teeth, and a turtle-like carapace on its back. Beside it, a mountain barely reached the beast's knees.

"It's that big?" Arad looked at the receptionist, "That's not all of it. Read what was written after that."

The tarrasque is a three-thousand-meter-tall lizard from ancient earth. All the recordings lead us to believe it's a female, the last one of her kind.

It remains asleep in the core of the world and only comes out once every few centuries to feed everything is food to her, but she's attracted to those with a lot of mana.

Each time she appears, it's in a different place in the world, and until now, she never appeared in the same place twice. Scholars even found that she once appeared on the ocean floor, fed there then went back to sleep without anyone noticing.

Through the several appearances she made, two adventurers had managed to beat her, but the fact she returned again proves she's immune to death. The tarrasque is believed to be an immortal creature that possesses a tremendous regenerative ability.

"Wait," Arad glared at the receptionist, "The next page says she can reflect all magic thanks to its carapace, and what's this about it being able to jump hundreds of kilometres?"

The receptionist looked away, "The tarrasque is treated like a natural disaster. We can't fight it. The normal reaction would be evacuating the area and letting her eat a part of the land. She will then retreat back to sleep in the core of the planet, and the likelihood of her appearing in our kingdom for the next one thousand years would be almost negligible."

"Then why did only Nina leave? Who's going to help with the evacuation?" Arad growled.

"Nina's clan rules the area they live in. You can see them as an independent nation, but without the politics. They had outsider interference. They won't even listen to us if we talk." She said.

"Then you're going to just leave them?" Arad glared at the door, "I'm going after Nina. I'm sure she would end up facing that monster alone."

"Don't!" The receptionist stared at him, "Nina is special. She's strong, she never lost. You aren't the same. You would die."

"I won't, and don't dare to try stopping me." Arad glared at her, and she twitched.

"But...if you agitated the tarrasque, it could jump and land in another spot." She was about to start crying, "The barbarian land isn't densely populated so there won't be that many casualties. But what if the tarrasque landed in a city? It will be a disaster."

"I don't care, I'm killing that thing and bringing Nina back," As Arad walked toward the door, Aella and Eris followed him.

"You two are coming?" He asked.

"Of course," Aella replied with a smile, "You will need all the help you can get,"

"I don't about how it's immune to death, but if it was defeated before, then we can do the same." Eris giggled, thinking of blowing the tarrasque with her plasma expansion.

As they walked out of the guild, Eris stared at Arad, "Who should we take with us?"

"Range should be useful against a large lizard." He replied, "It can reflect magic. So casters won't help."

"Casters can still help," Aella looked at them, "Me with wind and you with gravity, we can lift objects and throw them at him."

Zephyr sat on her head, "You mean me, not you."

"If it prefers to eat things with concentrated mana then I'm a prime target. I can use myself as bait to drag it into a trap." Arad looked at Aella.

"I don't think Jack can make something big enough to catch such a monster,"

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BAM! Nina jumped from one hill to another. Her goal was her clan a few hundred miles away. To any human, traveling such a distance would be hard but to her it was nothing.

After hours, she finally landed in the forest of her clan, standing on a boulder at the river as she stared at the erupting mountain in the distance. "Since when that was a volcano? No, it must be because the tarrasque."

CRACKEL! As she mumbled, the ground beneath her shook and the trees cracked, the river splashed as birds flew into the sky. The ground cracked and she jumped away, looking around, "Earthquake, I knew it."

After a while, the ground calmed down, the faint stench of blood rising from the cracks. Something was in there.

BAM! Nina jumped into the sky, seeing the tents of her clan in the middle. Monsters rushed out of the forest in fear as the barbarians screamed, fighting to protect the clan from the rampaging beasts.

Nina fell into the middle of the battle, stomping a triple-horned ape demon beneath her feet.

The monsters froze, staring in her direction. Her skin turned red as she roared, and lunged forth, ripping a drake's head with her bare hands.

The monsters stopped moving as Nina glared at them, their eyes and limbs twitched before they bolted away in every direction.

"Strange," Nina stopped her rage, "Why run away? Stempedes usually never stop like this."

"Nina! Back!" A large bulky man standing almost two meters tall approached her, glaring at her with a sharp glare.

"Ah!" Nina stared at him, "You're still alive, Dad." She couldn't believe it, with how fierce the patriarch's leadership is, she suspected he would have already died in a power struggle.

"Me not dead!" He growled, "Me, wait, daughter back." He smiled, pointing at the forest, "Animals, run of the great one. Now scared of Nina."

Nina started trying to think. She's stronger than her father, but he isn't weak. If the monsters ran away from her, they should have run away from him in the first place.

Nina started sniffing herself, most monsters act by smell, and that might prove a lead.

She only carried her smell and Arad's scent. Humans barely leave theirs on other people, but dragons are like cats. The fact she was with him on a mission, for monsters now, her body reeks of his scent.

"They are either scared of me or Arad. And enough to rival the great one fear," She smiled, "That Arad, to think he's power would come this far,"